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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
6.3 explained
Logical research is the investigation of all regularity; outside logic, everything is accident.
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Logical research is the investigation of all regularity; outside logic, everything is accident.
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Logic and Tautology
The chapter defines logical research as the investigation of all regularity, contrasting it with the accidental nature of everything outside logic.
Key passages
“Logical research means the investigation of all regularity . And outside logic all is accident.”
The study of logic is the study of all that is regular and necessary; anything not governed by logic is purely accidental.
Wittgenstein distinguishes the necessary regularity of logic from the contingency of the world outside it.